Chen responded by post in the site's comments section. He said the article was "unbalanced and misleading." The post the site published was translated by Facebook.

"The reason I said marriage is a holy matrimony between a man and a woman is based on my own personal experience," he said. "I am a straight man married to a woman I love and I have two beautiful daughters I love from the marriage. This is how I feel about my marriage."

He also wrote: "I am a huge advocate for LGBTQ.+ rights since I was young. I support gay marriage and I am proud that I can work for Grindr."

Chen also took aim at Into for not asking him to comment on the post before publishing the story. The site's editor-in-chief, Zac Stafford, said a reporter asked for a comment through a Grindr spokesperson but did not receive a response.

Grindr was sold to the Chinese gaming company Kunlun Group in January where Chen became the app's chief technology officer. He became the president of Grindr in August. Over the summer, the company vowed to curb sexual racism with "Kindr."

Find Chen's full Facebook post, translated from Chinese to English via The NYTimes, below:

Some people think that marriage is a holy union between a man and a woman, I think so too, but that's your own business.

Some people think that the purpose of marriage is to bring up children with your own DNA, but that's your own business.

But there are people who aren't the same as you, and desperately hope that they can also get married; they have their own reasons for wanting that.

Getting married is personal. If you have money, can't you donate to people suffering from poverty, hunger, war or natural disasters, those who are truly in need of it? Why do you spend so much money to prevent people in love from getting married? Aren't there other important things in your life?

It's true, I won't buy HTC products for the rest of my life, and I won't donate any money to Taiwan's Christian groups ever again for the rest of my life!